The dance world is changing. And at Marymount Manhattan College, the Department of Dance’s newly reimagined curriculum is reflecting those changes with an eye towards equity. Until this year, MMC’s BA and BFA programs focused heavily on ballet and modern techniques. Now, the curriculum requires incoming students to place equal weight on modern, ballet, jazz (including a course entitled Embodied Africanist Aesthetics), […]

From Riverdance to HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” tap dancer DeWitt Fleming Jr. has proved to be a triple threat on the stage and screen. He’s also an entrepreneur, selling his own line of wireless microphones, DeW It Right Tap Mics. Last year, he added “composer” to his resumé with the release of Sax and Taps INTERSPLOSION!, […]

Even dancers who love their isolations and hip rolls might be totally unaware of where jazz dance comes from. Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance, which premieres at the Dance on Camera Festival on Sunday, July 19, aims to change that. Directed by Khadifa Wong and produced by Lisa Donmall-Reeve, the feature-length documentary is a […]